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  • FL: Homeowner shoots armed intruder

    Source: News4JAX

    “An Arlington homeowner shot an intruder who broke into his house Tuesday afternoon, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said. JSO said the armed intruder broke into a rear bedroom window at a home on Arlex Drive North around 12:45 p.m. Then, led the man to the back bedroom, where he demanded valuables and car keys. The man was able to retrieve his gun from the bedroom and shot the man in the shoulder, police said. … The intruder was taken to the hospital in police custody.” (11/18/25)

    https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2025/11/19/arlington-homeowner-shoots-armed-intruder-during-home-invasion-jso/

  • Nigeria: One of 25 students abducted found safe as search continues for missing girls

    Source: CBC News [Canadian state media]

    “A schoolgirl who was abducted with 24 others from a dormitory in northwestern Nigeria has escaped and is safe, the school’s principal told The Associated Press on Tuesday, as hunters joined security forces in the search for the missing students in forests close to the school. The girls were kidnapped before dawn on Monday, when gunmen attacked the dorm at the Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School in Kebbi state’s Maga town. Local police said the gunmen scaled the fence to enter the school premises and exchanged gunfire with police officers before seizing the girls and killing a staff member. No group has claimed responsibility for taking the girls, but analysts and locals say gangs of bandits often target schools, travellers and remote villagers in kidnappings for ransom.” (11/18/25)

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/nigeria-school-girls-abduction-escape-9.6984052

  • US Energy Department loans $1 billion to help finance the restart of nuclear reactor on Three Mile Island

    Source: San Diego Union-Tribune

    “The U.S. Department of Energy said Tuesday that it will loan $1 billion to help finance the restart of the nuclear power plant on Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island that is under contract to supply power to data centers for tech giant Microsoft. The loan is in line with the priorities of President Donald Trump’s administration, including bolstering nuclear power and artificial intelligence. For Constellation Energy, which owns Three Mile Island’s lone functioning nuclear power reactor, the federal loan will lower its financing cost to get the mothballed plant up and running again. The 835-megawatt reactor can power the equivalent of approximately 800,000 homes, the Department of Energy said.” (11/18/25)

    https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/11/18/three-mile-island-doe/

  • Mexico: Sheinbaum rejects Trump’s suggestion of US strikes on cartel targets

    Source: France 24 [French state media]

    “Mexico’s president on Tuesday ruled out allowing US strikes against cartels on Mexican soil, a day after President Donald Trump said he was willing to do whatever it takes to stop drugs entering the United States. ‘It’s not going to happen,’ President Claudia Sheinbaum said. … Sheinbaum said she had given this message to Trump and to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on previous occasions and that they had understood. ‘Would I want strikes in Mexico to stop drugs? OK with me, whatever we have to do to stop drugs,’ Trump said Monday, adding that he’s ‘not happy with Mexico.'” (11/18/25)

    https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20251119-mexico-president-rejects-trump-usa-cartel-strikes

  • TX: Court blocks new congressional map

    Source: The Hill

    “A panel of federal judges in Texas on Tuesday blocked the state’s new GOP-favored House map from being used ahead of the 2026 midterms by declaring it a likely racial gerrymander, dealing a blow to Republicans who have looked to net extra seats. In a 2-1 vote, the panel ordered Texas Republicans to use the congressional lines they had in place before they redistricted earlier this year. The new map would have offered Republicans up to five pickup opportunities in the House in 2026. … Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) quickly vowed to appeal to the Supreme Court, which is already considering wide-ranging questions about racial gerrymandering lawsuits in a long-running battle in Louisiana.” (11/18/25)

    https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5611065-texas-republican-redistricting-challenge


  • How Much Freedom Did the Founders Win—If the Government Can Still Take It All?

    Source: Chasing Liberty
    by Jeff Charles

    “Joseph Rivers was a 22-year-old from Romulus, Michigan, who boarded an Amtrak train in 2015 with about $16,000 in cash — his life savings — to start a new life in Los Angeles as a music video producer. His dream was cut short when federal agents decided the government was more entitled to that cash than he was. In Albuquerque, New Mexico, DEA agents boarded the train, questioned passengers, and asked to search his bags; Rivers agreed, and agents found the cash in a bank envelope, even calling his mother to confirm his story before stealing the money anyway under civil asset forfeiture, leaving him with no charges and no way to continue his trip or get home.” (11/19/25)

    https://www.libertychasers.com/p/how-much-freedom-did-the-founders

  • Red Alert for the British Economy

    Source: Foundation for Economic Education
    by Oliver Dean

    “The latest Office for National Statistics (ONS) statistics paint a bleak picture for Britain’s economic outlook. Growth over the last three months is even slower than expected, with the UK’s GDP rising just 0.1% from July to September, half as much as forecast. That comes hard on the heels of the news on Tuesday that unemployment has hit 5%, the highest it has been in four years. With more young people not in education, employment or training and businesses repeatedly voicing concerns over tax hikes, it is clear that Britain is no longer the welcome home to businesses it once was. With the Budget just two weeks away, the Chancellor still has the power to turn the British economy around. But only if she signals to businesses that she has their interests at heart.” (11/19/25)

    https://fee.org/articles/red-alert-for-the-british-economy/

  • Why Individuals Take Center Stage in “Foundation”

    Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
    by Matthew Hisrich

    “A refrain in the television series Foundation is that, in the grand scheme of history, individuals and individual actions do not matter. Amusingly, the focus of the series is on individuals and individual actions. As it turns out, the lives of individuals make for more compelling storytelling than long arcs of history. Show creators David S. Goyer and Josh Friedman were wise in this regard to deviate from Isaac Asimov’s source material. But the tactic simultaneously undermines the central premise of Foundation as a concept while also revealing two fundamental truths about human existence: individuals matter and we cannot predict the future.” (11/19/25)

    https://mises.org/power-market/why-individuals-take-center-stage-foundation

  • The Strange Demise of Mainstream Parties

    Source: The Atlantic
    by Idrees Kahloon

    “In democracies all across the world, the party system appears unhealthy: Trust in parties is low, partisan antagonism is high, and elections feel existential instead of routine. Many countries’ equivalents of the Democrats and Republicans — parties that have been dominant at least since World War II — are suffering similar decline. Some are on the precipice of extinction. Populist parties are ascending seemingly everywhere. The synchronized collapse of mainstream parties around the world shows that what is happening in America is unexceptional — and, as a result, that many prominent theories for the American electorate’s malaise and discontent are incomplete.” (11/19/25)

    https://archive.is/CFvJ1

  • Misconduct in the James Comey Case Stemmed From a Reckless Rush To Indict Him

    Source: Reason
    by Jacob Sullum

    “When U.S. Magistrate Judge William E. Fitzpatrick blasted the Justice Department’s handling of the James Comey case on Monday, he did not address the merits of the perjury and obstruction charges against the former FBI director. But the government misconduct that Fitzpatrick described was largely a product of the reckless rush to deliver the grudge-driven indictment that President Donald Trump demanded. … These missteps, which Fitzpatrick said might prove serious enough to require dismissal of the indictment, did not happen in a vacuum. They were the consequences of Trump’s determination to get Comey, regardless of the facts or the law.” (11/19/25)

    https://reason.com/2025/11/19/misconduct-in-the-james-comey-case-stemmed-from-a-reckless-rush-to-indict-him/

  • Property Rights Ping Pong Pandemonium

    Source: Libertarian Institute
    by Jim Bovard

    “Remind me again why any reasonable person expects the federal government to obey the law. The Trump administration this week gravely imperiled the nation’s water supply by curtailing federal regulations over dry land. Or at least that’s the story the media is hustling. A Washington Post headline epitomized the fretting: ‘Trump proposal would limit protections for U.S. waterways’ by narrowing the definition of wetlands. The Post did not mention that mere puddles or land that is dry 350 days a year have been categorized as ‘waters of the United States’ under the Clean Water Act.” (11/19/25)

    https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/property-rights-ping-pong-pandemonium

  • “Military” and “Foreign Policy” Are Not Magic Words to Give the Government Unrestrained Power

    Source: The Bulwark
    by Anthony Sanders

    “‘Military’ and ‘foreign policy’ are not magic words that automatically get the government out of court. However, similarly to what the Bush administration claimed during the War on Terror, the Trump administration is advancing that argument in various contexts, from deportations to sending the National Guard into cities that have not requested them. And some judges want to submit to this ‘magic.’ The Supreme Court should shut this hocus-pocus down before it unleashes unrestrained power in the name of ‘judicial restraint.'” (11/19/25)

    https://www.thebulwark.com/p/military-and-foreign-policy-are-not-magic-words

  • Booming tech sector wants govt intervention for “national security”

    Source: Responsible Statecraft
    by Stavroula Pabst

    “Authors of a new Council on Foreign Relations report are framing government subsidies and bailouts for key tech industries as a national security imperative. Not surprisingly, many of the report’s authors stand to benefit financially from such an arrangement.” (11/19/25)

    https://responsiblestatecraft.org/national-security-tech/

  • Decapitation Diplomacy

    Source: Common Sense
    by Paul Jacob

    “Earlier this month, during a parliamentary session, Japan’s new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi was pressed by an opposition lawmaker on scenarios that could trigger the clause in Japan’s constitution concerning ‘survival-threatening situations,’ thus allowing collective self-defense. Takaichi explicitly stated that Chinese military action against Taiwan — such as a naval blockade, invasion, or interference with U.S. forces — could qualify. … scandalous as Takaichi’s answers were to the Communist Party in China, it was the response of Xue Jian, consul general of the People’s Republic of China, in Osaka, Japan, that raised more than eyebrows: ‘I have no choice but to cut off that filthy head that barged in without hesitation — are you ready?'” (11/19/25)

    https://thisiscommonsense.org/2025/11/19/decapitation-diplomacy/

  • War in Venezuela, Brought to You By the Same People Who Lied Us Into Iraq

    Source: The Intercept
    by Alain Stephens

    “The echoes of Iraq are everywhere: the moral certainty, the insistence on a narrow mission, laws stretched to accommodate force, the journalist class nudging readers toward the idea of escalation. The Times leans on that posture — the intellectual confidence that if a dictator is cruel enough, if his country is chaotic enough, then U.S. firepower is not only justified but prudent and even moral. … This is not law enforcement. It is coercive statecraft backed by military power. And when the press uncritically repeats the administration’s framing, the escalation becomes easier to swallow.” (11/18/25)

    https://theintercept.com/2025/11/18/venezuela-iraq-war-new-york-times/

  • The global race for talent: Other nations are outpacing the U.S. on high-skill immigration

    Source: Niskanen Center
    by Cecilia Ignatio

    “Immigration policy has become a critical tool for labor and economic strategy. But as governments around the world compete for valuable workplace talent, the United States has gone in the opposite direction by adding new restrictions on legal immigration for high-skilled workers, explicitly targeting the H-1B visa program through a $100,000 fee. … The administration has said the amount will encourage companies to hire American workers instead of relying on foreign talent. However, in practice, the policy has created confusion among employers regarding the extent of its implementation.” (11/18/25)

    https://www.niskanencenter.org/the-global-race-for-talent

  • Jeffrey Epstein Pursued Swiss Rothschild Bank to Finance Israeli Cyberweapons Empire

    Source: Drop Site
    by Ryan Grim and Murtaza Hussain

    “With an avalanche of new documents released by the House Oversight Committee, and looming legislation mandating further disclosures, the press has renewed its relentless coverage of the life and times of Jeffrey Epstein. Yet, with some notable exceptions, a major part of his life’s work has remained outside the media’s gaze, his relationship with the state of Israel and his prominent role in helping advance the Israeli cyberweapons industry.” (11/18/25)

    https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/jeffrey-epstein-ariane-de-rothschild-ehud-barak-swiss-bank-israeli-cyberweapons

  • Labour’s rush to digital ID reveals the idiocy of the technocrats

    Source: spiked
    by Andrew Orlowski

    “The UK scrapped war-time identity cards in 1952. It remains one of the few countries that eschews a ‘papers, please’ relationship with the state. In the 2000s, the 9/11 terror attacks gave Tony Blair’s government a justification to re-introduce state-issued identity cards …. Introduced via legislation in 2004, ID cards became one of New Labour’s most contentious policies, dogging the final years of the government. They were scrapped in 2010 by the Tory-Lib Dem coalition. By then, they had already cost an estimated £5 billion, officially, or between £10 billion and £20 billion, unofficially. Surely no one would want to do that all over again? Almost nobody did, until this year.” (11/18/25)

    https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/11/18/labours-rush-to-digital-id-reveals-the-idiocy-of-the-technocrats/

  • A Postmortem on the 2025 Government Shutdown

    Source: Independent Institute
    by Craig Eyermann

    “There was a way the 2025 shutdown could have been avoided. Congress could pass a temporary spending bill to fund government operations while continuing to hammer out regular spending bills. The Republican majority in the House of Representatives drafted a straightforward Continuing Resolution to do just that, sending the bill to the Senate, well before the government would shut down. That’s when things went wrong.” (11/18/25)

    https://www.independent.org/article/2025/11/18/postmortem-2025-government-shutdown/